Windows XP

Lost my Windows XP Admin Password

i loss my admin password of windows xp. i did not formate my windows bcz. there is very important data available. i can't loss it. pleas you sugest me. what i do. thanks with best regard

How do you create a dialog box in Login script?

My OS is WinXP. My telnet software is AbsoluteTelnet. I have this script which logs me into the central server and displays a message box. I was thinking, instead of copying and pasting in POP addresses, I would like my message box to become a box that holds 45 different POP names ( DNS names )....

How to find PC CPU utilization and programming efficiency on Windows XP?

Quite a while back I posted a puzzle: Find a number that when divided by 10, remainder is 9; divided by 9 remainder is 8, etc. A number of people responded with correct answer. I was pleasantly surprised to come across a post by kccrosser suggesting how the logic of the program can be modified...

when powered up no boot squence is performed

using windows xp ver 2 when powering up it starts to check for boot squence and then flashes a yellow light four times and then a pause it tries agian for boot and nothing so the flashing light agian. fans have some on in the meantime.

MOSS 2007, Excel 2003 document opens in read only mode

Salaam, I am using Windows XP Version 5.1, Service Pack 2 and MS Office 2003 SP3. On Some Sharepoint sites, when I open an MS Excel document, it opens in read only mode. I mapped the network drive and opened from there, but was still opening in read only mode. Other Office documents like, word,...

CRTL + ALT + DEL on a mac running windows

I have a MACBOOK that i;ve installed windows XP pro on. when I try to get into it by using the FN+CTRL+ALT then backspace keys, it doesn't respond. this is a new mac and I don't know what else I need to try

different footers for two sections

My document is divided into sections and I have created different footers for each section, also using "different footers for odd and even pages" so footers. However, near the end of the document, when I type in a footer on the even page of one section, it replaces the even page footers in the...

Trust relationship between this workstation and Primary Domain

I have a win2k3 sp1 box connected to xpSP3 thru crossover cable. DHCP works, the PC is in the domain. I cant remotely manage the PC from the server, so I tried adding the domain admin to the list of users on the PC. admin can log on no problems, but when i try to add him in control...

all the same picture when sending

when I try to send several pictures out they come back all the same picture. What can I do to make them stay and not be the same?? thank you

if i have windows xp home edition installed on my desk top can i get rid of it and replace it with windows xp premium edition. My operating system is

xp home edition to windows premium edition

Outlook 2007 Not Enough Memory when trying to view a shared mailbox.

We are using Outlook 2007/Exchange 2003. Since last Wednesday, a small part of our users have been getting the error "Not Enough Memory to Perform this Operation" when just trying to open or view a shared/department mailbox. We made no system changes, but there was an automatic update from...

Can't use database within Workgroup with Windows XP clients

I am in charge of 10 computers and a server, I have them all on a workgroup and i can only use the database application installed on the server on the older computers. I try to use the same program on win xp but it says that the program is outside of the local intranet or on a untrusted source so...

Disabling USB flash drive use via group policy

Do you know of a way to effectively disable USB flash drives while permitting other USB devices on client computers through a group policy ? Our systems administrator has tried a couple of alternatives, but some of them completely disable the USB ports, and others just block some specific types or...

Virtualization advice for testing websites

just a quick inquiry about some Virtualisation products. I'm after a solution for my Web development team to test websites. Scenario: Team of Web developers who need to test websites in multiple browsers on cross platforms - Various flavours of XP// Vista possibly Ubuntu Linux Ideal Solution:...

I am using TWEAK-UI for Auto log in. But it never auto log in. I have to press Enter always !

I have used different Tweaks from others & as wellas from MS.

Command used when replacing a HDD with another from a different PC

Hi Guys, I want to find out about a command that is used when I replace a hard drive with another one from another PC (already installed with windows XP), I know that when you do that, it will give a blue sreen. but when you run this command (on the hard drive you putting in) before shutting it...

Corrupt of Missing System file

Hi everyone. We had a remote user whose laptop shutdown on her while working on emails and when it restarted it gave the following message: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system We set up a new laptop for her and swapped it out. ...

Computer Management Console

Hi, When iam opening computer management in the disk management drives are not showing up and in the disk fragmentation drives are showing but when i click fragment it not fragmenting it shows up the disk cannot be fragmented. thanks Anil

Word margins and text appear shrunk after changing from reading view to normal view

First the OS is Windows XP, SP3, Office 03 SP2, Exchange 03. The problem is that a user opens an attached word document from an email, then changes the view from reading to normal, when he does this the font shrinks and the margins also shrink. When I say the margins shrink, I mean they show on...

Can't create ODBC connection to sql 2005 instance

I have a server 2003 two node cluster with SQL 2005 installed. The orginal instance is working fine and there is no connection problem. I have created a second instance and can connect with the SQL Management Studio. When i try to create a ODBC connection from my client os both XP and VISTA both...